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More than 50,000 leading and fast-growing businesses run on our corporate cards, bill pay, financing and B2B payments, and in 2025 the Financial Times named Clara the region’s fastest-growing company. We’re passionate about helping every company we work with become more effective-and, through that, raising the region’s competitiveness. We’re ~400 people, backed by Notable Capital, Coatue, Kaszek, monashees, DST Global, ICONIQ, General Catalyst and Goldman Sachs, among others.\nWe are looking for a Staff Engineer to provide senior individual-contributor technical leadership at Clara. This is an organization-level IC role: you shape architecture, raise engineering standards across pods, and multiply impact through design, code, and mentorship - not a people-manager position.\nThe Role\nYou are a builder and a technical authority beyond a single pod. You still write production code regularly, but your scope is cross-team: systems that span services, shared platforms, and hard technical bets that unlock multiple product areas.\nThis is a builder's role first. You are expected to ship code, lead by example in reviews and design docs, and leave clearer systems behind you - not only facilitate meetings.\nWhat You Own\n Cross-team architecture - Drive system design for initiatives that cut across pods (APIs, data models, event flows, reliability patterns). Hold a high bar on coherence, operability, and long-term cost.\n Engineering excellence - Set and model standards for code quality, testing (TDD/BDD), observability, and secure design. Influence through RFCs, architecture reviews, and pairing - not through reporting lines.\nTechnical strategy - Partner with Engineering Directors, Pod Leads, and Product on sequencing, tech debt, and platform investments. Make trade-offs explicit and documented.\nMentorship & leveling-up - Grow Senior and Mid engineers via design reviews, deep pairing, and hiring signal. You provide strong input on technical fit; managers own career and performance outcomes.\nIncident and reliability leadership - Lead or co-lead response and remediation for high-severity incidents on systems you influence; drive durable fixes, not band-aids.\n Hands-on delivery - Author meaningful PRs. Staff at Clara is not an architecture-only title.\nWhat You Don't Own\n1:1s, performance ratings, compensation, or PIPs - those belong to Engineering Managers / Directors.\nDay-to-day sprint facilitation for a single pod (unless temporarily embedded); Pod Engineering Leads own pod execution rhythm.\nTechnical Skills\n8+ years of professional software engineering, including substantial time as a Senior / Lead IC on complex systems.\nDeep expertise in at least one of: Backend: Java (Spring / Spring Boot), microservices, scalable system design, PostgreSQL/MySQL and NoSQL data modeling, event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar), REST APIs, AWS, containers (Docker/Kubernetes).\n Frontend: Production React + TypeScript at scale, component architecture, performance, testing (Jest, RTL, Cypress/Playwright), build/CI tooling.\n\nAbility to work and reason full-stack even if your depth is on one side: read the whole path from data model to API to UI.\nProven experience designing for high availability, security, and operability in production.\nStrong testing culture (unit, integration, contract) and familiarity with CI/CD (GitHub Actions).\nTrack record of written technical design that non-authors can challenge and execute against.\nSoft Skills\nDemonstrated influence without formal authority - across teams and stakeholders.\nClear communication of trade-offs to Product, Design, and leadership.\nProduct mindset: you engage roadmaps and feasibility, not only tickets.\nIntellectual honesty: change direction when evidence demands it.\nMentorship instincts; you leave teams stronger than you found them.\nStrong English; Spanish is a plus for LATAM collaboration.\nNice-to-Have\nExperience in financial applications, payments, or regulated LATAM markets.\nPrior Staff / Principal / Staff-equivalent title, or org-wide Tech Lead scope.\nPlatform or developer-experience investments (shared libraries, internal tools, AI-assisted engineering workflows).\nDeep AWS (EKS, RDS, MSK, etc.) or security posture work (auth, supply chain).\nWhere we work\nThis is a remote-first role: you'll work from home day to day. You'll ramp up in person with the team, and come together in person for team moments, events and customer visits through the year.\nWhy Clara\n A high talent-density team driven to make an impact in Latin America - low ego, high ownership.\nCompetitive salary and stock options (ESOP) from day one.\nAn annual learning budget and accelerated development paths.\nEnglish is our working language, with Spanish and Portuguese every day.\nHow we work\nClarity - Open and direct communication: we say what we mean and give context where it matters.\nSimplicity - If it can be simpler, it should be.\nOwnership - We own everything we do, end to end. 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